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Are filmmakers historians in our society and what impact has the values and attitudes of the society, in particular of women, had on their interpretations and re-interpretations of the historical personality Elizabeth I in film between 1950 and the present day? Historic film has played and enormous role over the past fifty years in communicating ideas and commentary on issues in history to a mass audience. However, despite the popularity of film historians tend to dismiss it as a historical medium because of its unreliability and imaginative nature. Looking further into preliminary research for the topic I began to note the responsibility that a filmmaker has in portraying a piece of history, and difference in the way they have interpreted and re-interpreted history because of their subjectivity. Thus, I began to question the nature of history from a post modernist viewpoint, that all history is interpretation based on social context, the role of the media in history (ultimately 'Who are the Historians?) and the contrasting approaches to a historical personality, issue or event. This essay assumes that though the past does exist, as does the truth, all history is an interpretation of the historian because of ingrained cont